3/7 Class

Classical Greece. The city state or capital is Athens. Government is a democracy. Alexander the Great spread culture through Asia, Greece, Egypt to make a Hellenistic culture was a great idea because I believe he would of counquered the intire world if is wasn't for him dying. Alexander the Great captured the Persian empire. They speaked Greece. 3000 BC Minoans lived in Crete. Minoans had elegant civilizations that had power in the Mediterrian Sea. 2000 islands in the Aegean and Ionian seas. Regions physical geography shaped Greek traditions and customs. The sea shaped the Greek civilization. Greece was always 85 miles or less from and body of water but mostly the sea. Sea travel and trade became very important because they lacked natural resources such as timber, metal and farmland.